Decision-Making Contracts in Dorset

Decision-Making
South West > Dorset

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Dorset requiring Decision-Making skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Decision-Making over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 21 25 30
Rank change year-on-year +4 +5 -10
Contract jobs citing Decision-Making 3 3 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Dorset 3.06% 1.82% 2.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.33% 2.13% 2.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £298 - -
25th Percentile £326 - £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £378 - £513
Median % change year-on-year - - +13.89%
75th Percentile £436 - £519
90th Percentile £467 - -
South West median daily rate £550 £550 £525
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 4
10th Percentile - - £51.11
25th Percentile - - £52.70
Median hourly rate - £11.87 £55.57
Median % change year-on-year - -78.64% +10.69%
75th Percentile - - £61.22
90th Percentile - - £70.08
South West median hourly rate £69.35 £40.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +73.38% -38.46% +34.66%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Dorset

Decision-Making falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Dorset.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 90 141 179
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Dorset 91.84% 85.45% 82.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 91 103
10th Percentile £203 £175 £160
25th Percentile £363 £175 £243
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £425 £488
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% -12.82% +2.63%
75th Percentile £563 £630 £610
90th Percentile £675 £825 £638
South West median daily rate £520 £525 £549
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.37% +9.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 35 36
10th Percentile £14.47 £11.87 £17.50
25th Percentile £14.99 £13.69 £48.86
Median hourly rate £21.63 £15.31 £56.29
Median % change year-on-year +41.25% -72.80% +5.28%
75th Percentile £67.50 £56.49 £62.72
90th Percentile - £61.25 £70.77
South West median hourly rate £63.00 £50.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year +26.00% -18.70% +26.16%

Decision-Making
Job Vacancy Trend in Dorset

Job postings citing Decision-Making as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Dorset.

Job vacancy trend for Decision-Making in Dorset

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Dorset

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Decision-Making in Dorset.

Daily rate trend for Decision-Making in Dorset

Decision-Making
Daily Rate Histogram in Dorset

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Decision-Making in Dorset over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Decision-Making in Dorset

Decision-Making
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Dorset

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Decision-Making in Dorset.

Hourly rate trend for Decision-Making in Dorset

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Contract Job Locations in Dorset

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Decision-Making within the Dorset region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Bournemouth - 1 £280 - 46
Poole - 1 - - 5
Decision-Making
South West

Decision-Making
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Dorset by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) Confluence
1 1 (33.33%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Power Automate
1 1 (33.33%) Power Platform
1 1 (33.33%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle Database
1 1 (33.33%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Git
1 1 (33.33%) GitLab
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Junior
2 1 (33.33%) Junior Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Junior Oracle Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Power Platform Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Research Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Kafka
1 1 (33.33%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (33.33%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Unix
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) Anti-Money Laundering
2 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Data Integration
2 1 (33.33%) Data Visualisation
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
2 1 (33.33%) Impact Assessments
2 1 (33.33%) Knowledge Transfer
2 1 (33.33%) Market Research
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (33.33%) Qualitative Research
2 1 (33.33%) Quantitative Research
2 1 (33.33%) Risk Management
2 1 (33.33%) SDLC
2 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (33.33%) Visualisation
2 1 (33.33%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) Java
2 1 (33.33%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) Shell Script
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) ISO 20022
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle